Yuri Vlasov

Yuri Petrovich Vlasov was born in 1935.
He was the superheavyweight world champ in weight-lifting (1959,
1961, 1962, 1963), Olympic superheavyweight champ
(1960), silver medalist (1964). He set many
weight-lifting records and was nicknamed
"the strongest man on Earth". Yuri Vlasov
was young
Arnold Schwarzenegger's role model.

Yuri Vlasov presents himself as "patriot" fighting
both Communism and the Zionist conspiracy against the
Russian people. He participated in December, 1995,
parliamentary elections on the list of the leftist
Power to the People movement and as candidate
in a one-mandate district (Tushino electoral district No. 200,
Moscow). Power to the People failed to cross
the five-percent threshold, and Vlasov himself lost to
Konstantin Borovoi, a prominent businessman of
Jewish origin and the leader of the Party of Economic Freedom,
in Tushino. As a result, Yuri Vlasov failed to win a Duma seat
and decided to run for president.